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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!
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I can only live in my truth.
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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.
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For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
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As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.
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I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
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I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I want to see more women as producers.
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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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